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Exploding Tongues: Language, Art, and the Russian Avant-garde

Mikhail Larionov. "Ha[p]py Autumn," 1912

In 1912, in parallel to his work on his Rayonist compositions, Mikhail Larionov painted several pictures in the spirit of “Infantile Primitivism”. Among them and affiliated to the Seasons cycle is the canvas “Ha[p]py Autumn”. The artist was captivated by children’s drawings and collected them over the entire course of his lifetime. A spontaneous naivety, borrowed by the artist from these same drawings, is reflected here in the expressive “simplicity” of the colour and the “clumsy” ungrammatical inscriptions. At the same time, the natural drawing of the lips, earrings and letters anticipates Larionov’s later work on Futurist books, where he achieved a similar union of word and image.

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1. Mikhail Larionov. "Ha[p]py Autumn," 1912 In 1912, in parallel to his work on his Rayonist compositions, Mikhail Larionov painted several pictures in the spirit of “Infantile Primitivism”. Among them and affiliated to the Seasons cycle is the canvas “Ha[p]py Autumn”. The artist was captivated by children’s drawings and collected them over the entire course of his lifetime. A spontaneous naivety, borrowed by the artist from these same drawings, is reflected here in the expressive “simplicity” of the colour and the “clumsy” ungrammatical inscriptions. At the same time, the natural drawing of the lips, earrings and letters anticipates Larionov’s later work on Futurist books, where he achieved a similar union of word and image.

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Backward to the Big Bang: A Timeline of Russian Avant-Garde Book Arts and Their Cultural Impacts
Page v. Frame: Textuality and the Nullification of Dimension

This historical timeline is based upon bi-weekly publishing information in Knizhnaia letopis', and reprinted in Susan Compton. The World Backwards: Russian Futurist Books, 1912-16. It is cited in Getty Research Institute metadata.

The timeline provides a highly granular historical sequence, which allows for intermedia comparison with other cultural phenomena, such as paintings, posters, and sculpture.
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